[Dovecot] CVS to Mercurial switch

[Timo Sirainen]

On 19.5.2007, at 20.28, Charles Marcus wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> I've been meaning to switch away from CVS for a few years now, but  
>> I was
>> never sure what I wanted to switch to, so I kept delaying it. I  
>> finally
>> decided yesterday that Mercurial is pretty nice.
>
> Hi Timo,
>
> Not complaining or anything, but I'm curious... what is it about  
> Mercurial that you like better than Subversion - which is what  
> pretty much every other project changes to if they change from CVS?

SVN is centralized, Mercurial is distributed. Distributed version  
control systems allow a lot of nice things.

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